Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Stages

Today I composed a poem.  It doesn't really make sense unless you know me and my story.  But that's ok.  I don't think anyone knows my story.

Stages

Welcome to the world....
being born, beginning to live. learning how to walk, talk and be. learning to hold your head up. learning your name.

Going to School...
starting the formal process. making friends, meeting siblings, trying not to cry.

Growing up...
learning that I wasn't smart, I wasn't first, I wasn’t anything special. I was stubborn, I was a drama queen.

Bleeding Green and Grey...
finding the meaning of community, doing what I wanted to do. experiencing, laughing.

Move Along....
everything changes. people change. desires change. feelings towards life changes. it’s called “growing up.”

Blank Canvas....
working hard to become a worker. starting over. making new friends, being a new person. finding love. losing. losing everything.

MAKE A CHOICE
who will you be? where will you go?

pray that you chose correctly.

Starting out on a journey....
new faces, new places. striving for something, yet not knowing what. starting again. trying to smile. Trying to find ---

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